The Elliptic Curve CA is one of our CAs in TLS-O-MATIC. The regular CA is based on RSA keys, this one is based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography. In order to install it you need to download the CA certificate and install it on your test system. The certificate is in PEM format, which is accepted by most systems.

Elliptic curve keys are smaller than RSA keys – but are still very strong. This CA has a 256 bit Elliptic Curve key. The algorithms work faster, which is a good thing for all the mobile devices that are in use today.

The Certificate for the Elliptic Curve CA.

CA Policy and Practise Statement

WARNING – these certificates are totally insecure and are for test purposes only. All the tests are created to facilitate interoperability and application testing, but this is not a CA to trust for anything else than testing. We guarantee nothing. We promise nothing. Basically you are on your own. Make sure you remove the test CA certificates after testing!

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All the tests, including keys and certificates, are available on Github.
https://github.com/edvinanet/tls-o-matic
That's also where you will find all the current tests while waiting for us to write documentation here.

What is TLS?

"The TLS protocol provides communications security
over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery."
From RFC 5446 that defines the current TLS - version 1.2. Wikipedia is also a good help in explaining TLS.